Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care.

WE HAVE OUR TEAMS.

Congratulations to our official Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE teams. Stay tuned for more in-depth team information and insights as the competition begins. For now, see who they are, where they’re from, what they like to call themselves. It’s on.

IT IS 26 YEARS since film fans got a glimpse of what 2015 could be like in the cult movie “Back to the Future Part II.” Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, arrived from the past in his flying, time-traveling DeLorean on Oct. 21 this year.